''Acacia auriculiformis'', commonly known as auri, earleaf acacia, earpod wattle, northern black wattle, Papuan wattle, and tan wattle, akashmoni in
Bengali, is a fast-growing, crooked, gnarly
tree in the
family . It is native to
Australia
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,
Philippines,
Indonesia
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, and
Papua New Guinea
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. It grows up to tall.
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Identification
''Acacia auriculiformis'' is an evergreen tree that grows between to tall, with a trunk up to long and in diameter. The trunk is crooked and the bark vertically fissured. Roots are shallow and spreading.
It has dense foliage with an open, spreading crown. Leaves long and wide with 3–8 parallel nerves, thick, leathery and curved.
Flowers are long and in pairs, creamy yellow and sweet scented. Pods are about , flat, cartilaginous, glaucous, transversely veined with undulate margins. They are initially straight but on maturity become twisted with irregular spirals. Seeds are transversely held in the pod, broadly ovate to elliptical, about . At Kozhikode (Kerala, India), flocks of jungle crow (large-billed crow
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